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Selin Kubilay
As a software developer I use my background in data science to build tools to help people explore, understand, and work with their data better. I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people1, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times2, and built packages for R3 that let you do magic4.
Education
PhD., Geography
Berlin
Humboldt University in Berlin
2026 - 2020
N/A
MSc.,Environmental Sciences
Istanbul
Bogazici University
2018 - 2016
N/A
Selected Industry Experience
Principal Software Engineer
Posit
Remote
Current - 2024
- Working on all things up and down the stack of the Positron data science IDE.
Senior Software Engineer
Posit
Remote
2024 - 2023
- Creator and lead developer of the ShinyUiEditor low-code tool for building Shiny applications with a drag-and-drop interface
Software Engineer
Posit
Remote
2023 - 2020
- Helping make programming web applications with R easier and more beautiful on the Shiny team
- Helped create and release Shiny for Python. A ground-up rewrite of the Shiny app development platform for Python.
Data Journalist - Graphics Department
New York Times
New York, New York
2016
- Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport.
- Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.
Selected Data Science Writing
The Great Student Migration5
The New York Times
N/A
2016
- Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.
Wildfires are Getting Worse, The New York Times6
The New York Times
N/A
2016
- GIS analysis and modeling of fire patterns and trends
- Data in collaboration with NASA and USGS
Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb7
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2019
- Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
- Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
- Reached top of HackerNews multiple times
Links
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/26/us/college-student-migration.html
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/using_awk_and_r_to_parse_25tb/
- https://github.com/nstrayer/shinysense
- http://nickstrayer.me/dataDayTexas/
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/26/us/college-student-migration.html?smid=pl-share
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/25/us/wildfire-seasons-los-angeles.html
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/using_awk_and_r_to_parse_25tb/